United StatesI have watched a couple videos of bad games from the Amstrad CPC of some of the worst games on the system and several of them are not finishable. If I wanted to speedrun these types of games, would it be possible to get a gamepage? Would time end at the point when the game crashes perhaps?
- Airwolf - Glitch with the timer prevents you from ever being able to finish since you explode at 11:11 seconds, and the game also crashes if you get to the final room.
- Death Kick - game is not finishable, glitches on fighting enemy a couple screens left.
RPGs are typically a good answer to this. The usual combination of:
- "Random Encounters". You know that random encounter that likes wiping your team in a certain area? Count on getting it while speedrunning at some point. Lots of resetting in RPGs because of this during RPGLimitBreak all week long.
- Random drops. Drops can drastically alter the run especially when they are good weapons or damage inflicting usable ones.
- Random damage, The randomness varies in some games. In RPGLimitBreak TheRpgChick (if I get that wrong don't crucify me), was having fun with getting Critical Hits with Claude in Shining Force Cd Book 1. You miss you reset to your safety save.
- Random Evasion. You can have as high evasion as you want...in some games it seems not to matter when RNG is not on your side.
- Random Aggro. Swords and Serpents and Dan in RPGLimitBreak. Poor guy had like honey or something on him. Got hit like 20 times in a couple minutes.
- Random Position of enemies on a map in some games. Wild Arms has enemies on the map while you run around, Sometimes enemies can appear in front of doors apparently.
- Crashes - Since RPGs are long and single segment is a popular way of running them, if the game crashes you have to reload from your last save or restart. Ar Tonelico 2 seems to be highly unstable, with the runner during RPGLimitBreak saying that not one person has ever done a clear of the game without it crashing.
- Glitches - Nasty buggers when you are not the one in control. Can easily ruin things for you. Some games are so glitchy you need to save in case stuff like that happens. Years ago was thinking of running the crappy Star Wars Phantom Menace Episode 1 game on PS1...but it has too many glitches. Falling through the map and dying was common so I gave that one up due to frustration.
Swords and Serpents is pretty disgusting.
Ooo are we getting 2FA on SRC at some point? People will NEVER stop reusing passwords or making poor passwords. Heck I bet a lot don't even want passwords and think they are a waste of time.The "cool" thing that people do when required to use a strong password seems to be slightly modifying it...which is not that hard to crack either if they have the original
I am interested in watching obscure older games. Especially odd older games. Like that really obscure Indiana Jones "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for Atari. Really odd game. I tried playing it and could figure out anything ahha.
Bizarre post anyway. "Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction between rational decision-makers." - from wikipedia. If this was about MMOs or something and how players interact the question would make more sense, but from a SINGLE player interacting with a program the question itself has nothing to do with making poor shots in golf to avoid a cutscene.
Hello would you like to create a Sword + Clones or something like that for a category? I was able to complete the game with just those and I would like to submit it. Then reduce the time down. Would that be possible?
Maybe this? https://github.com/LiveSplit/LiveSplit.Counter/releases No idea how to install this into LiveSplit though.
@Timmiluvs Composite thank you, fixed my post. That sounds dead simple to install. Nice.
With a composite/s-video to usb device you are going to want a splitter, extra cables, and possibly a usb extension cable. If you use OBS you should be able to add a Window Capture and then add in LiveSplit. So you should be able to record the video/audio input from the USB and then the Livesplit. This can then output to mp4.
The device seems good but the instructions are in Japanese, and if you don't speak the lingo you might want this. It goes through setting it up with Amarec though it should be similar for other like programs. https://iotku.pw/gvusb2-guide/
For OBS this guy is saying how you need to have it in a "custom resolution at 720x480" for that gv-usb2. https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/2qzwr9/question_about_io_data_gvusb2/
I think years ago I was using the VirtualDub to record, a fairly ancient program now. Back then I was using the EZCAP, a discontinued device. That one came with English instructions. That gv-usb2 looks very similar.
Or you could use emulation...
Wonder if anyone else noticed that after killing a guy it seems that the enemy seems not to attack as much for a short while. Wonder why.
Ok so it was not just me. I saw it once on of my PBs on the Floor 5 from a spider, and again when testing on a spider on Floor 4. Seems to be quite rare. No known way of manipulating drops I guess?
The person who made that faqs must have played this game an excessive amount lol.
No idea if there is some use for this. This just seems like a harmful bug, though easy enough to get past.
The Flight Spell has a glitch where it will cost 24 mp. If you cast it with NO mp the bug actiates. Go into some event like a battle and you can cast it like normal again.
The second way of activating it is to cast a Passwall in battle then run. Then try to cast Flight outside of battle.
On some these guys I did over a hundred "kills". Some of them I just briefly checked to see if they would drop anything outside the scope of the "Floor Level" drop like Silver Sword or Dagger. The way the game seems to work with drops is that it is determined at some point after the end of the battle. So to test make a save point right when you kill the enemy. Then on random points on the final prompt that pops up gold/exp, or rank up message you press confirm. Much faster than trying to just keep track as I play. That method is valid for any enemy. Just save, press confirm on prompt, see if you got an item, then reload, repeat.
So far my conclusion seems to be that the rewards are floor based, not enemy based. Which sounds like good news since even scrub enemies could give you great drops on that floor. Although some enemies seemed to be more willing to give the better rewards like Snakes or Super Zombies. That's my theory ATM anyway.
Also seems that if you have no empty space on the guy that dealt the finishing blow you get no drop. So yea there's that.
Later on if I play the later floors I will continue the list, but please add to this thread.
-Floor 4 Spider Death Dagger ( Very Rare - Only got a SINGLE one for hundreds of reloads across the floor) Red Staff (Rare) Helmet Chain Long Sword Silver Helm Wizards Wand Great Sword Great Axe Silver Sword (Rare)
-Floor 4 Snake Chain Helmet Silver Sword Red Staff Death Dagger Scale
-Floor 4 Goblin Red Staff Wizards Wand Silver Sword Silver Helm
-Floor 4 Super Zombie Chain Great Sword Silver Helm Scale Silver Sword Red Staff Great Sword Long Sword
-Floor 4 Weak Zombie Silver Helm Helmet
Floor 3 Soldier Staff Leather Sword Scale Long Sword Wizards Wand Shield Great Axe Jewel Axe Great Sword
-Floor 3 Ghost Wizards Wand
-Floor 3 Goblin Halberd
-Floor 3 Bat Scale Great Sword
-Floor 3 Magician Helmet Broadsword Long Sword Great Sword Staff Jewel Great Axe
-Floor 2 Soldier Dagger Helmet Long Sword Sword Scale
-Floor 2 Spider Long Sword Jewel
-Floor 2 Goblin Scale Great Axe Wizards Wand
-Floor 2 White Zombie Scale Axe Staff
-Floor 2 Bat Great Axe
I cleaned up and reviewed my recordings for all Floor 2 attempts and I never got a Silver Sword. I got a Sword, Broadsword, and a Long Sword. Must have been wishful thinking.
How ever, I did just do some testing on drops. I will be putting that on a different thread.
I can give some advice for bug finding even though I do not have a lot of experience in bug finding in a 3D game. Also this game is probably not my cup of tea.
Try and do things oddly and always play while recording, so you could look back at if you found something of interest. What I mean by oddly is maybe try things in the wrong order, or try to do certain actions in unusual places. I recently found an Out of Bounds glitch in some doujin game by extensively exploring and attempting to get out of bounds. At one point I found I could go fall through a ceiling on one rooftop and then abused that. Most commercial games have QA so that kind of stuff is less common, but look at the recent DOOM game. OOB galore! Or look at the fairly new XCOM 2, a game so glitchy even I could not take it ahah. Reloading a save and having your units appear inside the building instead of on top where they were before you saved and loaded surrounded by aliens was less than fantastic. Or having my ranger dude decide to glitch through a building to go a couple panels in the wrong direction, then getting killed by the enemies on overwatch was also great. So glitches can happen TO you whether you want them to or not.
Also watch videos of other people playing the game, sometimes you can find new exploits.
XBOX is hard to test because as far as I know there are no real good emulators for it due to a long history of threatened lawsuits, misguided approaches, lack of community interest due to few exclusives, and loss of interest by emulator developers. Emulators allow one to use states and test things more efficiently. This game does appear to be on PC which I would encourage you to explore.
So I had to experiment with that first glitch and I did this. Kind of skeptical of its use in Any%. Maybe in the longer one where you have a longer time to build up the crappy character's health for a better chance to activate the glitch and to be able to actually HIT the darn enemies!
Anyway its a variation of that first one. The start of the battle seems to do that same calculation. Only seems to calculate stats of the members that are alive.
The bad thing with this is that if you try and run away then while the first guy seems to run away it is really likely someone else is gonna get smacked a couple times.
That second unkillable zombie pack glitch sounds horrendous!
What does "To-Hit" really mean? I was messing around with some weapons and some seem quite a bit better than others. Like the Red Staff and the Silver Sword both seem great. I guess that would mean they both have high Weapon Initiative?
Also do you understand the stacking of spells? As far as how it works and interacts with other spells? It seems like you can stack Strength 3 times, but I do not know if it has any effect beyond that. Deadeye kind of seems to effect the one hit kill ability of the Thief, but I have no idea if it stacks and it seems like it may not be as good as it sounds. I would rather use Strength over Deadeye.
Also is there a better guide somewhere on what weapons drop from what enemies? The gamefaqs guides do not seem complete. I saw the Silver Sword drop in Floor 2 maybe from a whitish zombie?. Also Snakes drop the Silver Sword. Think a snake also dropped a Red Staff. Death Dagger I think on Floor 5 too. And the guide does not show that.
